Alexander Lukashenko makes working trip to Shklov District and Orsha District

18 августа 2017

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is inspected the progress in the harvest campaign in Belarus, saw modern agricultural vehicles, and took a ride in a grain harvester when visiting farms in Shklov District and Orsha District

This year the President has instructed to sow the field with foreign varieties of winter wheat and hybrid diploid rye to see their quality and the yield. All technological processes have been observed. As a result, the yield reached 90-100 centners per hectare. This shows that with high-quality seeds, appropriate cultivation techniques and technologies any soil can yield good harvests.

The KZS-1624-1 harvester, a flagship Palesse model, was demonstrated to the President. The head of state was briefed on the technical characteristics of this model and the experience of using it. Alexander Lukashenko instructed designers to modernize this harvester by the next harvest campaign, eliminate all drawbacks, design and produce a better harvester which will be in demand in the future.

The reporters presented a photo of the flagship model of the Belarusian harvester, which performance Alexander Lukashenko had been evaluating that day, to the President.